Las Vegas Desserts Guide 2026: Best Sweets, Ice Cream & Pastry

Las Vegas has dessert at every level, from celebrity pastry counters in the resorts to a frozen custard stand that has been scooping since 1973. This guide covers places whose own websites, or their resort's, still listed them in September 2026. Menus and prices change often, so it avoids quoting prices it cannot check: look at the current menu before you go.

Pastry Shops on the Strip

Dominique Ansel (Caesars Palace)

The New York pastry chef's Las Vegas shop is at Caesars Palace. Caesars lists his best-known creations here: the Cronut pastry, the Cookie Shot and Frozen S'mores. It is the most famous name in pastry on the Strip and a good first stop.

Bouchon Bakery (The Venetian)

Thomas Keller's French bakery sits behind the escalators near the Venetian's North Tower guest elevators. The Venetian lists breads, croissants, pain aux raisins, pastries, French macarons, sandwiches and coffee. It is a counter, so it works as a quick breakfast or an afternoon pastry rather than a sit-down dessert.

Milk Bar (The Cosmopolitan)

Christina Tosi's bakery has its only Las Vegas shop at The Cosmopolitan, Level 2 of the East Tower. Milk Bar lists hours of 9 a.m. to midnight Monday to Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. Thursday to Sunday, which makes it one of the easiest late desserts on the center Strip. Its cake truffles, layer cakes and soft serve are the familiar orders.

Bellagio pastry

Bellagio has long been home to Jean Philippe Patisserie, known for its chocolate fountain, and to a Sadelle's bakery café. MGM Resorts' sites could not be checked for this update, so confirm what is open on Bellagio's dining page before you plan around them.

Milkshakes, Ice Cream and Frozen Custard

Black Tap (The Venetian)

Black Tap is a burger restaurant, but most people come for its CrazyShake milkshakes, piled with cookies, candy and cake. They are huge: one shake easily serves two after a meal. The Venetian lists a large dining room and a 52-seat patio.

Luv-It Frozen Custard (505 E. Oakey Blvd)

A family-owned walk-up stand just off Las Vegas Boulevard between the Strip and downtown, open since 1973. Custard is made fresh every day, with sundaes, shakes, malts, floats and quarts to go. Luv-It lists hours of 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily and now also serves a dairy-free soft serve. It is the classic locals' answer to the question of where to get ice cream in Vegas.

Resort and mall shops

Most resorts and malls have a gelato, ice cream or candy shop, and they change often. Walk the shopping corridors at the Forum Shops, the Grand Canal Shoppes and the LINQ Promenade and you will pass several.

Chocolate: Ethel M Factory and Cactus Garden

Ethel M Chocolates has its factory, flagship store and cactus garden in Henderson, about 20 minutes from the Strip by car. Ethel M lists self-guided viewing of the factory, a café, and guided chocolate tastings with a chocolatier that you book in advance. The cactus garden is lit up for the holidays each winter; Ethel M announces the dates each year, so check before you go.

If you cannot get out to Henderson, Ethel M also has a kiosk at the Forum Shops at Caesars, a shop in the California Hotel downtown and several at Harry Reid International Airport, handy for a last-minute gift.

Local Bakeries

Freed's Bakery

A family-owned Las Vegas bakery since 1959, now in its third generation. The main bakery is on Eastern Avenue, with dessert shops in the southwest (Sunset and Durango), Summerlin, Aliante and downtown, and kiosks at T-Mobile Arena and Allegiant Stadium. The signature is its strawberry shortcake; it also makes custom cakes, cupcakes, cookies, macarons and cheesecake, and ships nationwide.

Pinkbox Doughnuts

The pink-boxed local doughnut chain, official doughnut partner of the Raiders and Golden Knights. The nearest spot to the Strip is a kiosk at Bagelmania, 252 Convention Center Dr., open 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. or until sold out. Its Sunset Road location has a 24-hour drive-thru.

For more, see our Vegas bakeries guide.

Cheap Sweets Off the Strip

• Chinatown (Spring Mountain Road): bubble tea, shaved ice, Asian bakeries and dessert cafés, many open late and far cheaper than the resorts. Shops change often, so see our Chinatown food guide.
• Mexican bakeries (panaderías): conchas, churros, tres leches and flan at neighborhood prices across the valley, especially in east Las Vegas and North Las Vegas.
• Luv-It Frozen Custard: the cheapest classic dessert near the Strip.
• Grocery bakeries: a slice of cake from a supermarket bakery costs a fraction of a resort dessert.

Late-Night Desserts

Vegas is good for a sweet craving after midnight:

• Milk Bar (The Cosmopolitan): until midnight Monday to Wednesday and 1 a.m. Thursday to Sunday.
• Peppermill (2985 Las Vegas Blvd S): 24 hours Thursday to Sunday and until 2 a.m. the rest of the week, with big diner desserts made for sharing.
• Casino cafés: many resorts keep one restaurant open all night, and most have cakes or sundaes on the menu.
• Pinkbox drive-thru (Sunset Road): open 24 hours if you have a car.
• Room service: most large resorts offer desserts in the room; ask at the front desk what hours apply.

See our late-night dining guide for full meals.

Dessert at Fine Dining and Buffets

The most elaborate desserts in Vegas come at the end of tasting menus at restaurants such as Restaurant Guy Savoy at Caesars Palace. They are part of a very expensive meal, not a standalone dessert, so they are worth it only if you want the whole dinner.

Buffets are the opposite: unlimited small desserts, but you pay for the full meal. Bacchanal at Caesars Palace is the best-known; our buffets guide has current prices and hours. Paying buffet prices just for the dessert station rarely makes sense.

Planning a Dessert Crawl

A center-Strip crawl on foot: start with a pastry at Bouchon Bakery at the Venetian, share a CrazyShake at Black Tap in the same resort, walk south to Caesars Palace for Dominique Ansel, and finish at Milk Bar at the Cosmopolitan, open late. It covers roughly a mile, and the Strip's pedestrian bridges and casino walkways take longer than they look, so allow a couple of hours.

With a car, add Luv-It Frozen Custard on Oakey Boulevard, a Freed's dessert shop, a Chinatown dessert café on Spring Mountain Road, or the Ethel M factory in Henderson.

Two tips: share the big items, since Vegas portions are made for two, and in summer carry chocolate in a cooler bag, as the desert heat melts it fast in a parked car.